Prudence
New Member
Name: Valla Raez
Faction: The Outer Rim Coalition
Rank: Judge
Role: In Training
Homeworld: Corellia
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Age: 21
Height: 5'4
Weight: 123 lbs
Force-sensitive: Yes
Valla Raez
Biography
Valla was born on Corellia to a poor family in the manufacturing district. Despite their struggles with poverty, and their location in the seedier parts of Corellia, her parents made sure that she was always taken care of. At a young age, due to her sensitivity to the Force, the New Jedi Order sought, and received, her parents' permission to take Valla back to the Order to be trained as a Jedi.
Personality
Overall Valla is a rather reserved person. She's not particularly outgoing, but those she's become acquainted with, or gotten to know, she's fairly friendly and personable. Due to her experiences in life she's developed a pessimistic look on life.
Appearance
Cotan - in many ways - is a Jedi that can be described as looking particularly average. He comes in at just about average height, leaving him with no significant vertical advantage that might set him out from a crowd; he's a bit on the thinner side than usual, his build and musculature set more on the wiry side, but that isn't particularly noticeable in a crowd; and he is neither strikingly attractive nor hideously ugly, so that doesn't set him apart either. All in all, he is a man that blends in well with any group, depending on his clothing and state of cleanliness, and comes across looking like a sort of "everyman" Jedi.
He keeps his hair cut medium-length to short, only styling it just enough to keep it out of his face (although he has been contemplating growing it out recently), with closely-trimmed facial hair along his cheeks, jaw, and lips (in his own words, he's not a fan of his clean-shaven jawline). This does, however, serve to make him look a bit older than he actually is, especially when coupled with some of the stresses of living as a Jedi/having been a Sith prisoner/all that sort of stuff. One of the more memorable features of Cotan's face is the dark green of his eyes, an uncommon colour (among baseline humans), certainly so for one with dark brown hair like he has.
As a Judge of the ORC, he's often seen dressed in simple, functional clothing - naturally coloured gabal-wool shirts (or linen, if he's in a hotter climate), thick canvas pants, and flexible, flat-soled bantha-leather shoes (try as he might, he's never been able to enjoy wearing boots - according to him, they mess up his footwork). He is generally lightly armoured - not quite to the extent of Clone Wars-era Jedi, but close, favouring a pair of spaulders, vambraces, greaves, sabatons for the tops of his feet, and simple gauntlet-plates for the backs of his hands, although the fingers of the gloves have been cut out to afford him full tactile sensation (when others have questioned this choice, he has generally responded with "I'm odd like that" or "Can't stand having my fingers trapped, y'know?"). This is due to his personal fighting style he eventually developed, in which - when fighting non-lightsaber wielding foes - he'll use his limbs to block strikes just as much as his weapon, while he's moving in to hopefully non-lethally incapacitate the other person. However, despite this clothing, he can often be seen wearing - at the least - the outer robe of a Jedi, given that it makes easy concealment and he prefers it over something like a duster or trench coat.
Attributes
Cotan is a fair bit stronger than he looks, at first glance. He makes sure to keep in shape and exercise, while his practice of the Teräs Käsi martial art has served to help build up and keep up his strength. He won't win in any strength contests, though, that's for sure; wiry musculature can only get you so far, but against more heavily built beings, he's likely to lose out. He is, however, a relatively dextrous individual, exploiting - when he needs to - his connection to the Force to gain an almost supernatural grace, focusing more on fine control, flexibility, and balance than on speed and evasiveness, though he can certainly get out of the way of most things if he has to. He also has a high level of physical endurance - he keeps himself quite healthy, eating healthily (most of the time) and making sure to exercise. He can take quite a few hits and bounce right back from them.
Cotan is a rather intelligent individual - despite his general focus on martial proweses - or, even, because of it - Cotan often spends quite a bit of his spare time reading and writing, rather than just instantly going and resting; this has led to him gaining quite a bit of knowledge over the years. He is also a rather mature, level-headed, and some might even say wise young man, as he knows quite well how to utilize his knowledge and his personal experiences given the situations he runs into. However, he is not without his passions, and not without the ability to be swayed by them, much as with everybody else - nobody is perfect, including him, as shown by how he managed to get himself temporarily captured by a Sith Lord. Lastly, he is a rather friendly and charismatic individual, and certainly enjoys helping people in whatever way he can. He also has a quick wit and a lighthearted sense of humour, which many people enjoy. As well, although he normally prefers to be a follower, he can be a capable leader, if the position needs filled. Over the years he has come to mostly overcome his quietness and shyness, although he can still be rather introverted at times, and enjoys being alone just as much as he enjoys being in a group of his closest friends and acquaintances.
His primary study in the Force revolves around the use of the lightsaber; owing to his near-religious practice of it both prior to and after his capture, he has a remarkably high skill level with it, far moreso than would seem normal for his age and seeming lack of experience. His primary form is Makashi, which he has nearly mastered despite his youth; many years of practice, both on his own and with his master, contributed to this, as does his naturally graceful and dexterous nature. His footwork is nearly peerless, and the main weakness in his bladework is its lack of strength, a common feature among many Makashi duelists; however, a lack of willingness to commit to some strikes (owing to his unwillingness to kill his opponents, even when they're trying to kill him) makes him seem slow at times, another weakness there. He has also taken up the study of Soresu - originally it was just to make up for Makashi's lack of defense against blaster weaponry, though after his capture and subsequent escape from Lord Mythos, he worked on practicing it quite a bit more, unwilling to let himself get captured again, building up to an intermediate skill level in it; in his urge to engage in non-lethal methods with his work as a Judge, need to defend himself and others on Utapau, and his new joining the Je'daii Order, he has increased his practice with it, and intends to soon reach the same level of mastery with it as with Makashi.
In contrast to his abilities with the blade and how advanced they are, his skills with the Force are average at best - while he has an expected level of mastery over the basics of telekinesis, leaping through the Force, and some bodily enhancement, his only other useful skills beyond those are Force Absorbtion under the Tutaminis tree of knowledge, which was his original solution to the issue of Makashi's lack of blast-deflect training; the other is Force Barrier, which he often uses if he's overwhelmed by attacks and needs to provide a quick stop while he backpedals and regains his composure. Other than the basics of sense-based powers, he has no experience on that front; his healing skills are absolutely nill; he has no stealth powers whatsoever; his mind tricks are very weak at best; in short, his skills are almost entirely weapon-based, not Force-based, though he does try to ameliorate this with high levels of practice during his downtime.
Strengths:
Skilled duellist
Friendly, good listener
Very self-driven to improve and learn
Generally maintains his calm in battle
High endurance
Skilled hand-to-hand combatant with a moderate level of skill in Teräs Käsi specifically
Weaknesses:
Lack of facility with the Force
Can still be prideful and overconfident
Gets himself into trouble even when he's trying not to
Not always particularly subtle
Relies more on dexterity and endurance than straight strength
Inventory
(1) Lightsaber (single-hand optimized, compressed crystal, amber blade, phrik guard)
(1) Curved Hilt Training Lightsaber (blue blade)
(1) OS-105 Blaster Pistol (for stun purposes)
(1) K-22 Bryar Pistol (main sidearm)
(1) DE-10 Heavy Blaster Pistol (backup)
(1) Bastion-class Personal Transport (stolen from Lord Mythos) (abandoned due to unfortunate run-ins with Sith forces)
(1) SSL 4550 Light Freighter (replacement for the Bastion)
(1) Blockade Runner (given in recognition of his service in protecting Pau City)
(1) Model K1 Astromech droid, designation K1-S5, or as Cotan calls it, "Kiss"
(1) HBC-01 Blaster Carbine (picked up while he was still in the New Jedi Order)
(1) Utapau Condor speeder (destroyed on Coruscant, later salvaged)
(1) Condor Podracer (replacement for the Utapau Condor speeder)
(Many) Clothes
(Some) Robes
(Lots) of snacks
(Lots) of whisky
(Not enough) Free Time
